"Xiaobao! You finally woke up. I scared my mother to death."

Mrs. Lu rushed over and hugged her son, patting his back gently as if to coax a child.

However, Lu Baocheng was not as well-behaved and obedient as imagined. Instead, he frowned in his mother's arms, showing a hint of annoyance.

Seeing this, Mr. Lu asked the housekeeper to pull Mrs. Lu away. He stood in front of his grandson and asked in a deep voice, "Did you meet the fox spirit on the shrine?"

Hearing this, Lu Baocheng pursed his lips, lowered his head and responded, "Yeah."

"When did it start?"

"The first time was when I was twenty."

Hearing the answer, Mr. Lu's face darkened, and he gritted his teeth and continued to ask: "When was the first time you had sex?"

This time, Lu Baocheng was silent for a moment before replying, "It was also when we were twenty, when we first met."

"Asshole!" Old Man Lu's eyes suddenly widened, and he slapped him across the face. His chest heaved with anger, and he pointed at him and cursed, "That's a fox fairy, a deity our family has worshipped for many years! It's been around since your great-grandfather's time. How could you, how could you have the heart to do that to him?!"

If he hadn't heard it with his own ears, he would have found it unbelievable.

No matter how animalistic a person is, he would not react to an animal, let alone that this person is his grandson whom he has watched grow up.

Lu Baocheng was slapped hard, but he didn't react at all. Instead, Mrs. Lu made a fuss, crying and shouting, and rushed over again, hugging him and asking to see a doctor.

"I'm fine, Mom." Lu Baocheng shook his head and tried to push her away.

Mrs. Lu didn't let go. "Why is it okay? It's all red. It must hurt. Mommy will blow on it for you."

As she said this, she lowered her head and was about to blow on him.

However, before she could get any closer, Lu Baocheng suddenly raised his hand and pushed her out forcefully.

"I told you not to!"

With a low roar from Lu Baocheng, Mrs. Lu bumped into a floor-standing vase, and the broken porcelain pieces were scattered all over the floor.

The servants rushed forward in panic to help him, but Mrs. Lu just looked at her son in astonishment, "Xiaobao, what's wrong with you?"

Lu Baocheng lowered his head, clenched his fists, as if he was enduring something, but he couldn't help it. He suddenly raised his neck and roared, "Fuck Xiaobao, I'm thirty-five, not five! Xiaobao, Xiaobao, are you sick or am I?"

He looked ferocious and crazy, and the way he cursed scared Mrs. Lu and even Mr. Lu.

"Baocheng, how do you talk to your mother?!" Mr. Lu scolded.

Although he also disliked Mrs. Lu's doting, and even gave up the power of the head of the family early and left the main house, thinking out of sight, out of mind, it did not mean that he could bear to watch his grandson commit such a rebellious act.

But Lu Baocheng did not reflect on himself as he did in the past. Instead, he laughed when he heard it.

"Haha, all of you listen to her, but who ever supervised me? Who ever asked me if I was willing? Since I was little, she's always believed that women would do something bad to me. In elementary school, middle school, and even college, people kept an eye on me. I couldn't have a female deskmate or a female friend."

"Of course I didn't dare to fall in love, because whoever fell in love with me would bring bad luck to their family. And the more I suppressed myself, the more precocious I became. I started growing a beard at the age of fifteen and began to desire the opposite sex. God knows how I got through those years."

As Lu Baocheng spoke, his voice was choked with sobs and his eyes were red.

But no one laughed at him.

Because everyone has experienced puberty, it is common for boys in particular to become impulsive and awkward during the enlightenment stage, so most boys will discuss beautiful girls together, even fall in love early or watch some weird little videos to start their own awakening to becoming men.

However, Mrs. Lu is authoritarian and overbearing. Not only is she highly possessive of her son, she also treats him like an ancient lady from a noble family. Now he is 35 years old and has never had a girlfriend. Just think about how painful it is.

"On my twentieth birthday, I wanted to commit suicide. Rather than living under your control, I thought I'd better be reborn into a better person. But that day, you happened to open the shrine without Grandpa's knowledge, allowing me to see the fox spirit."

"Then it was the first time in my life that I met such a beautiful woman, and she was so kind-hearted. After all my pursuit, she was finally moved by me and became my wife. From now on, it doesn't matter if you want to keep me locked up until I'm forty-five or fifty-five. Having her by my side is enough for me."

At the end of his speech, Lu Baocheng's eyes softened, as if he regarded the fox fairy as his wife.

Mrs. Lu was heartbroken when she saw this. She opened her mouth to defend herself, saying that everything was for his own good. But when she saw the hatred in her son's eyes, her heart ached so much that she couldn't speak.

Mr. Lu was so shocked by these words that he couldn't recover for a long time.

"Baocheng..." He never expected that the truth would be like this. Looking back at the time when his grandson grew up and became more silent, he realized that he had never put himself in the child's shoes.

Even he felt that this motherly love was suffocating, so how miserable must the child be...

"Grandpa, now you know everything. You must think I'm dirty and ashamed." Lu Baocheng wiped his face, and with red eyes, he forced a smile at Lu Laoqiang and said, "It doesn't matter. I don't want to live anyway. When I die, you can keep this matter to yourself. No one else will know that I am a disgrace to the Lu family."

He knew that everything he did was shocking, but he never regretted it.

Seeing how he was determined to die, Mrs. Lu couldn't help but covered her face and burst into tears.

"Ah...what sin have I committed!"

No one could tell whether her crying was more about pain or regret.

Elder Lu didn't even spare her a glance. After a deep look at his grandson, he turned to look at Ye Lan, bowed deeply again and pleaded, "Miss Ye, please save Cheng's life. No matter what the cost to my Lu family, I will pay it."

He knew that humans and demons had different paths, and that forcing a union was against the will of heaven. It would certainly not be an easy task to reverse the situation, so he had already made preparations before speaking.

Seeing that the truth had been revealed, Ye Lan didn't beat around the bush. He spoke in a cold voice, "Fox immortals are a rare form of monogamy in nature. Since he and the fox immortal are already married, he cannot marry anyone else in this lifetime. Humans and demons are on different paths, and a mortal's body will be corrupted by demonic energy. If he wants to preserve his name, the only way to resolve this is to sign a marriage contract that complies with the principles of heaven and earth."

Marriage contract.

Old Lu's hands trembled, and after hesitating for a moment, he couldn't help but ask, "Will Baocheng have children in the future?"

Hearing this, Ye Lan raised his eyes and glanced at him calmly, saying bluntly: "The love between humans and demons is against the laws of nature, so naturally there will be no offspring."

This is not a novel about strange things in the wild, where monsters give birth to children.

If it worked, no monster would be willing to practice for thousands of years to transform, and the world would have been in chaos long ago.

The hunched-over Mr. Lu opposite looked ten years older the moment he learned the answer, but he did not hesitate any longer and made the decision as soon as he closed his eyes.

"I also ask Miss Ye to help me find a happy marriage between my grandson and the fox fairy."